An album that breathes from the soul the essence of the old school flavor teleported into the future. Doses of pure electricity that crush and intoxicate the listener at the same time involving them in a colourful journey through Electro sounds, Trance nuances and Acid details that almost seems a challenge to the dark industrial current of the moment. "Pop Futura", the new EP by Vincenzo Pizzi, fifth release of "Pyteca", the label that he founded, is a record that contains five originals and three remixes signed by Gianmaria Coccoluto, Carlo Toma and Mannella, which from the beginning to end sounds like a futuristic manifesto even though it was born from the research and the interweaving of the sounds of the past. "TKTK", the track that opens the record, is pure electricity. Kicks of pad at times minimal and defined shades of beats and synth electro hit us and transport us to a progressive swirling whirlwind tangled by distant whispers of voices and intelligent musical geometry. "Yndi", the track number two, is more enveloping. It is the ode to the vortex in which we are trapped, it is the hand that controls our speed and shows us the way in the background, with an epic flavour until the time of the strong impact, with violent punch in the stomach inevitably received at the very first notes of "Hype 404". Decisive beat, techno-like and an environment that suddenly, for a few moments, is tinged with that black of which the entire EP is missing. A few moments, a few notes, to return with a jump at minute 1:37 in that vortex tangled of colours and intermittent whitest lights in which we are still lost. The result is a riot of sounds sometimes acid, sometimes trance as much as techno, as house as much as progressive. Same goes for "Gelatine" and "Claudia Marie"; the alternation of sounds and styles in such a short time not only makes them unique and difficult to define, but also eclectic, vivid. I imagine them as the pivot on which the vortex that surrounds us rotates nonstop, touching a bit at a time all the ends of the world, which appears to us as a huge piano in which every key pressed performs its function without any of them being more important than the other. "Pop Futura" is the result of the proper sequence of keys of this immense piano that wraps around an entire planet, managing in an intelligent way to pick up its best in small but well-researched doses. The three remixes, which close the album, are a surplus of colourful shades, - each of a different colour - of an already colourful disc. "Yndi", remixed by Carlo Toma, is the darkest shade of "Pop Futura". Greyish paintings which never get to the darkest black even if it glimpses through from the distance; like a shadow that can be felt but never touched and which reaches up to clash at the bluish aquamarine of the remix of "TKTK" by Gianmaria Coccoluto. Now there are more quiet panoramas, marked by slower but inviting rhythms, tranquillity and the feeling of having the sky just a few centimetres from your head. The remix of "Hype 404" signed by Mannella instead, is a more deep and introspective path than the original track. More enveloping sonorities, as soft as metallic, splashes of colour and rainbow paintwork pose elegantly the words THE END to "Pop Futura". - Valerio Polani
Artwork: Michela Maria Pizzi